Basta cosí, t’intendo:
giá ti spiegasti [appieno]1,
e mi diresti meno,
se mi dicessi piú.

[Meglio parlar]2 tacendo:
dir molto in pochi detti
de’ violenti affetti
è solita virtú.

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Confirmed with Pietro Metastasio, Opere, Bari: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 1914, page 273.

¹ Hasse, Leo: "a pieno"
² Spontini: "Meglio è parlar"

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Ciro riconosciuto [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Basta così, t'intendo", 1751, first performed 1751 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744), "Basta così, t'intendo", 1739, first performed 1739 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774 - 1851), "Duetto notturno" [ vocal duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor with piano ], from Trois Nocturnes à deux voix, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Enough of this, I understand you.", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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